<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The abstract deadline for the UN/US Workshop on the
International Space Weather Initiative: The Decade after IHY 2007 is April 24^th.
The workshop will be held at Boston College on July 31 through August 4, 2017.  Abstracts can be submitted online on:
<a href="http://iswi2017.bc.edu">iswi2017.bc.edu</a>.  If you need a few more
days, please contact <a href="mailto:Patricia.Doherty@bc.edu">Patricia.Doherty@bc.edu</a>
before the deadline. Please also register on this website as soon as possible
for planning purposes.      <span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This workshop marks the 10^th anniversary of
the International Heliophysical Year, which led to the genesis of the
International Space Weather Initiative. It is organized jointly by the UN
Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) and Boston College to highlight the achievements made
over the past ten years and to show-case the worldwide development of science,
capacity building, and outreach. The UN Workshops on ISWI have been aimed at
providing a global forum for space weather experts from developed and
developing countries, including representatives of the major instrument
operators and data providers. <span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The workshop will begin with a
high level international forum on the economic and societal effects of extreme
space weather. This forum will include keynote speakers from major
international organizations followed by a panel session to discuss issues and
policies for acknowledging space weather as a global challenge. The workshop
will then turn to recent advances made in scientific research by
utilizing ISWI instrument data in conjunction with space mission data in adding
significant new knowledge on space weather phenomena near Earth and
interplanetary space.<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span> Finally,
this workshop is held in preparation for
UNISPACE+50 in 2018, the 50^th anniversary of the first UN Conference
on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE), held in Vienna
in 1968. The three components of the Workshop will help develop a coherent
international policy towards an appropriate response to space weather. <span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Please visit the website: <a href="http://iswi2017.bc.edu">iswi2017.bc.edu</a>
for workshop details, registration and abstract instructions, and sponsorship
opportunities for US participants.  The
website also includes the link to the United Nations Office for Outer Space
Affairs website for this workshop.</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="text-indent:0.5in"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​With best regards,</div><p></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="text-indent:0.5in"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">Pat Doherty, Boston College, Local Organizing Chair</div><p></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="text-indent:0.5in"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">Nat Gopalswamy​</div>​<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​, ISWI Chair​</div><p></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="text-indent:0.5in">​</span><br></p></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Patricia H. Doherty</div><div dir="ltr">Director<div>Institute for Scientific Research</div><div>Boston College</div></div></div></div></div>
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